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Illinois Sees Record Loss of People and Income, IRS Data Shows 0
- Economics
- December 22, 2017
The Land of Lincoln is experiencing heavy losses of people and income to other states, new IRS data reveal. Illinois lost more than 86,000 people and $4.75 billion in adjusted gross income to other states from 2015-2016. Illinois’ problem with wealth flight isn’t just persisting, it’s getting worse. That’s the takeaway from new data released
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H.G. Wells vs. George Orwell: Their debate whether science is humanity’s best hope 0
- Philosophy
- December 21, 2017
In the midst of contemporary science’s stunning discoveries and innovations – for example, 2017 alone brought the editing of a human embryo’s genes, the location of an eighth continent under the ocean and the ability to reuse a spacecraft’s rocket boosters – it’s easy to forget that there’s an ongoing debate over science’s capacity to
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A Holiday in Siberia: A Child’s Story of Survival in a Soviet Concentration Camp 0
- History
- December 21, 2017
By the time Marysa Dac was seven years old she had spent Christmas in at least four different countries. This happened not because her father was a businessman (though he had been) or a diplomat (he was not) but because her family had the misfortune to be living in eastern Poland when it was annexed
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Philosophy Prof Argues Human Nature Doesn’t Exist. Commits Logical Fallacy 0
- Philosophy
- December 21, 2017
In this new article for Aeon, Ronnie de Sousa, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Toronto, argues that the facts of evolution entail that “there is no such thing as human nature.” Instead, what we are is what we make of ourselves by our individual and collective choices. There is no prior “human
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Why Republicans Shouldn’t Get So Excited About Tax Cuts 0
- Economics
- December 21, 2017
There is a lot of hyperbolic rhetoric flying around about the $1.5 trillion tax package Congressional Republicans delivered on this week. Democratic leaders decried the legislation, declaring it “the end of the world… Armageddon.” (I’m not joking, those are the actual words used by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who should probably consider retiring.) Republicans, meanwhile,
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Higher Education’s Effort to ‘Reeducate’ Men is Getting a Tad Creepy (and Counter-Productive)0
- Culture
- December 21, 2017
In recent years, Americans have been having two parallel conversations about the problems with men in our society. On the one hand, there is the conversation on college campuses and in the media about how men have created a poisonous environment—that they are privileged and sexist; they don’t treat women well; and they are frequently
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